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This was an assignment for class: build a structure made out of paper, cardboard, and or string and inspired by contemporary rap song. I choose 3030 from the artist / album Deltron 3030.
Lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/d.....cs_381424.html
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7_jbluF0qo
It's a rap opera set in the distopian future of 3030 where robots and "technology" take over man. I also have a Philosophy of Technology class so i kinda went w/ the theme that God created Man -> Man kills God -> Man created Machine -> Machine kills Man. I also looked at the art deco architecture from the movie Metropolis. So i have the planes acting as the seemingly both fragile and secure relationship between Man and Machine as well as abstracted sides of buildings. I also abstracted the rounded tops of the art deco buildings as a rolled up piece of construction paper as they fall crashing to the ground. There is a base in the middle on which society both sits on the remains of the failed interactions as well as symbolizing the constant falling.
I analyzed this mostly after i did it so that I could let my right side of my brain just create, but i think it's amazing. It's blue (the horizontal pieces on half of the base) and white (all the tilted pieces and the rounded bottom) and the rolled up construction paper is a warm-tone grey.
Took about 2 hrs of researching and thinking of ideas and 2 hrs to make it.
Lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/d.....cs_381424.html
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7_jbluF0qo
It's a rap opera set in the distopian future of 3030 where robots and "technology" take over man. I also have a Philosophy of Technology class so i kinda went w/ the theme that God created Man -> Man kills God -> Man created Machine -> Machine kills Man. I also looked at the art deco architecture from the movie Metropolis. So i have the planes acting as the seemingly both fragile and secure relationship between Man and Machine as well as abstracted sides of buildings. I also abstracted the rounded tops of the art deco buildings as a rolled up piece of construction paper as they fall crashing to the ground. There is a base in the middle on which society both sits on the remains of the failed interactions as well as symbolizing the constant falling.
I analyzed this mostly after i did it so that I could let my right side of my brain just create, but i think it's amazing. It's blue (the horizontal pieces on half of the base) and white (all the tilted pieces and the rounded bottom) and the rolled up construction paper is a warm-tone grey.
Took about 2 hrs of researching and thinking of ideas and 2 hrs to make it.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Abstract
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 853px
File Size 104.9 kB
Pretty interesting, nice design too, very dynamic, does capture the impression of things falling apart very well. Nice theme too, the "God created Man -> Man kills God -> Man created Machine -> Machine kills Man" I very like, but it's slightly hard to see in the sculpture. If it includes colors a color photograph would be nice, sometimes color can comunicate alot, it's especially important in abstracted pieces - when everything's reduced to very basic shapes, all elements (like color, texture) that are present speak more harshly, a spec of ink that would go unnoticed in a landscape painting can become the main accent in situations like this.
Getting lost in symbolism and literature in abstraction is kind of dangerous. There's no guarantee the viewer will understand the symbols, or even know them the way you do. I like Conceptual art's in the 70's approach: they basicly stated that the artist looses control of the artwork once he/she releases it - it can be interpreted in many different ways, the fun part is that it's not nescessarily a bad thing. Classical modernists put huge efforts into making their pieces understandable in one and only way, they wrote shitloads of manifestos for that. Post-modern decided it's too limiting. Still, clear communication via abstraction is an oxymoron.
Lovely piece. :)
Getting lost in symbolism and literature in abstraction is kind of dangerous. There's no guarantee the viewer will understand the symbols, or even know them the way you do. I like Conceptual art's in the 70's approach: they basicly stated that the artist looses control of the artwork once he/she releases it - it can be interpreted in many different ways, the fun part is that it's not nescessarily a bad thing. Classical modernists put huge efforts into making their pieces understandable in one and only way, they wrote shitloads of manifestos for that. Post-modern decided it's too limiting. Still, clear communication via abstraction is an oxymoron.
Lovely piece. :)
thank you.
And i can see what you are saying. I don't think the assignment was supposed to be completely abstract b/c i think there had to be some theme / purpose........we'll see what he says.
My thing is is that we have to draw it now w/ 1/3rd of it in very high detail and 2/3rds of it as a line drawing in pencil, so I took these black and white photos as a reference. We're not concerned about colour yet, more about form, line, and texture. The studio has very diffuse over head lighting and so I took some photos of it w/ the harsh lighting so i could work from the photo (being a photo student he lets me work from references). I cut the holes in the planes to be like windows in the building and allow for shadows to fall through the piece and add to the piece. Kinda making it more complicated w/ light and shadow than adding 5 lbs of more shit. All in all, this is my first sculpture and it being a benchmark from where to go from there. I do think that the theme is lost in the piece w/out an artist statement, b/c the song / theme is so complicated.
but hey..... at least i know i can bother you when i wish to have a very good opinion about my class projects
And i can see what you are saying. I don't think the assignment was supposed to be completely abstract b/c i think there had to be some theme / purpose........we'll see what he says.
My thing is is that we have to draw it now w/ 1/3rd of it in very high detail and 2/3rds of it as a line drawing in pencil, so I took these black and white photos as a reference. We're not concerned about colour yet, more about form, line, and texture. The studio has very diffuse over head lighting and so I took some photos of it w/ the harsh lighting so i could work from the photo (being a photo student he lets me work from references). I cut the holes in the planes to be like windows in the building and allow for shadows to fall through the piece and add to the piece. Kinda making it more complicated w/ light and shadow than adding 5 lbs of more shit. All in all, this is my first sculpture and it being a benchmark from where to go from there. I do think that the theme is lost in the piece w/out an artist statement, b/c the song / theme is so complicated.
but hey..... at least i know i can bother you when i wish to have a very good opinion about my class projects
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